95 boxes loaded into a lorry. the sum total of 4 years of excavation in El Cabo. Manolo and his girlfriend Margarita were also in the Ecological Foundation carpark to witness the archaeological village stacked in beer boxes, ready for transportation to the Museo del Hombre. Burials on top to avoid crushing on tight bends. It was quite a poignant moment, for me at least, and also an achievement and seemed to mark the end of a 4 year relationship we have had with a very special place in the Dominican Republic. as if the boxes of shell, stone and coral, represented boxes of memories containing the village and the people we know now because they are the product of our collaboration.